CONVICTION SET ASIDE
DEATH SENTENCE ON NEGRO SUPREME COURT’S RULING WASHINGTON. Rec. 10.30 p.m. Dec. 8. The United States Supreme Court to-day unanimously set aside the death sentence conviction of a Mississippi negro on the. ground that negroes were systematical excluded from the all-white jury which convicted him. The negro, Eddie Patton, was convicted for the 1946 murder of a white man and sentenced to death by electrocution. The Supreme Court’s decision said that whenever a jury selection plan operates in such a way as always to exclude representatives of a large group of negroes or any racial group. “ indictments and verdicts returned against them by juries thus selected cannot stand.”
The Supreme Court added that its ruling does not mean that the guilty defendant must go free, but that indictments can be returned and convictions ’ obtained “by juries selected as the Constitution commands-”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26640, 10 December 1947, Page 5
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144CONVICTION SET ASIDE Otago Daily Times, Issue 26640, 10 December 1947, Page 5
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